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Major Stakeholders meet in San Jose Costa Rica for the International Pineapple Organization (IPO) Global Pineapple Conference (Costa Rica) held at the Famous Cariari Double Tree By Hilton.

One of the highlights of the event was a presentation By Pineapple Industry Legend Erich Hinrichs, who made a special presentation based upon a book that was published in 1996 called "Änanas, Fruit of Kings".

Mr. Hinrichs was awarded the IPO "Friend of the Pineapple Industry" by Executive Director Will Cavan for Mr. Hinrichs amazing career in the Produce Industry which includes among other accolades, having been Director for Sales for the DOLE Empire.

The presentation was made to a gathering of Pineapple Industry Leaders & Legends from the entire Pineapple Industry Supply Chain that included such industry produce industry powerhouses such as Univeg, Compagnie Fruitiere,Kelly Brothers and Fresh Cut Giant Ready Pac which was represented by Oscar Delgado from the Marketing side.

As well as major USA Ports such as Gulfport, Mississippi which was represented by CEO Jonathan Daniels, Port Everglades which was represented by Robert Barcelo, and Port Miami which was represented by Sebastian Yavar.

The Production side was represented by Costa Rica industry Giant Transunion which was represented by Sergio Vargas, DOLE's former head of Pineapple in Costa Rica. Transunion farms 1,000 hectares of Pineapple.

Industry newcomer Bengala Agricola from Colombia with a 500 hectare pilot program was headed by Dr. Belisario Caicedo, Gustavo Barona, Francois Cavard and Julian Martinez who will be hosting the next IPO Global Pineapple Conference in Cali, Colombia in March 18-20, 2015.

While "Flavor" is very subjective, and each country that grows mangoes is very nationalistic, these are the mango varieties that are the most sought after around the world because of sweetnesss (Brix) and demand.The Chaunsa has a Brix rating in the 22 degree level which is unheard of!Carabao claims to be the sweetest mango in the world and was able to register this in the Guiness book of world records.Perhaps it is time for a GLOBAL taste test ???

Mangaluru: Vagaries of nature is expected to take a toll on the production of King of Fruits - Mango - in Karnataka this year. A combination of failure of pre-monsoon showers at the flowering and growth stage and spike in temperature in mango growing belt of the state is expected to limit the total production of mango to an estimated 12 lakh tonnes in the current season as against 14 lakh tonnes in the last calendar year.

However, the good news for fruit lovers is that this could see price of mangoes across varieties decrease marginally by 2-3%. This is mainly on account of 'import' of the fruit from other mango-growing states in India, said M Kamalakshi Rajanna, chairperson, Karnataka State Mango Development and Marketing Corporation Ltd.

Karnataka is the third largest mango-growing state in India after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Inaugurating a two-day Vasanthotsava organized by Shivarama Karantha Pilikula Nisargadhama and the Corporation at P…